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The First Commandment as an Axiom of Christian Preaching

In March of 1933 Karl Barth delivered a lecture, “The First Commandment as Theological Axiom” (cited parenthetically hereafter). This lecture is fascinating for several...

How To Hate Your Family

By Clinton Wilson Whether we are speaking of our families, or any relationships in which we find ourselves, we must learn to hate them in...

Exorcizing Our Gun Demons: Insights from Shane Claiborne and William Stringfellow

Let’s chop up a gun,” Shane Claiborne said. "You might want to step back a little.” The Simple Way community founder and activist donned a...

Sancta Salus

By Michael B. Cover Twenty years from now, scholars of American civil religion — a term which covers everything from the Deism of the founding...

“Don’t Cheat on God”: The Seventh Commandment

By Brandt L. Montgomery In “Faith of My Father,” I recalled how God made possible the reunion between my late father and I in 1997,...

The Second Commandment: Imagination and Contemplation

Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. By Mac Stewart One of my favorite TV shows as a little kid was Reading Rainbow. In...

The Church and human rights: Michael Ignatieff on idolatry

Churches face difficult decisions on matters of human rights because some discussions of the topic, like Ignatieff’s, present an alternative moral worldview with which Christians have overlapping concerns.

Hate your own political party

Jesus’ words might mean, “Whoever does not hate his own political party cannot be my disciple.”

Apocalypse Then and Now

Is the Roman Caesar lord and god, or is the babe of Bethlehem?

Is idolatry impossible?

Perhaps it is time for us Christians to stop imagining that anyone really desires anything more than God.

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